The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1887-07-01
A QUEER STORY.
Concise Account Of NObleman's Experience
with an Actress.

from many causes he may, that his
hereditary revenues are insufficient to
meet his hereditary requirements, has
not many means open to him OF sup
plying the deficiency. Laws as sacred
as those Of the Medes and Persians
forbid him to become a butcher, a
pawnbroker, or q licensed viCtualler.
He may not even start as a coal mer-
chant unless he has collieries of his
own. Thus the more certain BOads
to wealth are one and all closed to
him; and when he has looked at the
rest, he will probably find that ne must
either fly in the face OF all precedent
or become one OF three things-namely,
company promoter, a theatri-
cal manager or a cab proprietor. Do
not, then, let US be hard on Hubert,
third Earl OF Doldally, if up to the age
OF f and thirty his lerdship had not
found any better field for the exercise
ofhis undoubted abilities than a sue
cession OF more or less unremunera-
tive theatrical speculations.
At the same time, it must be owned
that Lord Doldally took very kindly
to this particular line of business.
From his youth up his lordship had
aspired to be a patron OF the drama
and early in lie he became known as
an habitue of those houses where
burlesques and comic operas were
played. Nor was it long before he
found his way behind the scenes.
Here he made himself very agreeable.
Nc frequsnter of that region was more
lavish in his presents OF bouquets and
iewelry and, whether owing to his title,
his good looks or his pleasant ways,
no one found his attentions received
with greater favor. Being thus popu-
lar-at least with one-halt of the pro.
fession-what more natural than
that, on discovering an immediate
necessity for supplementing his exist
ing sources of income somehow, Lord
Doldally should have started a thea
ire of his own?
Seeing what malicious world we
live 10, it is not surprising that the
kind of life Lord Doldally adopted
exposed him 90 some scandal. Per.
haps he could not help it il, in bis
capacities of patron and manager, he
was on somewhat friendly terms with
more than one fair ornament of the
Is A., Se htHrn
and is Therefore no more to be con-
demmed for setting her cap at peer
than any maiden on the other side of
the footlights, while, even il she has
no matrimonial ambition, and as
pires to nothing higher than new dress
es. diamonds or dinners at Richmond,
these, after all, are common feminine
weaknesses. Whether, however, Lord
DoldallY was to blame or was merely
the innocent victim of his personal
and hereditary attractions, the fact
remains that his connection with the
theatre gave rise to many stories not
wholly to his credit.
It was, therefore, a source OF SUI
preme Joy to that excellent woman,
the Dowager Lady Doldally, when she
succeeded in arranging match be-
tween her son and Miss McSeillar,
daughter OF the eminent Scotch bank.
er and Nj. p, OF that name. Though
Lord Doldally had not hitherto re-
garded himself as a marrying man, his
motives in asserting to this arrange
naent were not difficult to fathom. He
was 80 years Of age; the theatrical
speculations had not by any means
justified his expectations of them,
and McSeillar's IDEAS on the subject Of
settlements were highly agreeable to
his son-in-law elect.
Having married and paid his debts,
the earl Of Doldally terminated his
connection with the drama for a time,
and be might nave done SO for good
had circumstances been more favora-
BILE. Eut LADY DcldalIy was an inva-
lid and had to spend a greater por-
tion of her time at her house in Dey-
onshire or in the south Of France.
Further, her ladyshiE was rigid
Presbyterian. She regarded theatres
as the temples Of Satan, and even when
ia London during the earlier days
Of her married lite, sne refused to
accompany her husband to any place
0G public enter tainment. Thus lord
D0ldally, when senatorial or Other
luties brought him To town, found
himself thrown very much on his own
resources, and be therefore naturally
resumed his patronage of the drama
Needless to say, ia thus returning X
the scenes Of his younger days, he wai
soon behind the scenes again, chatting
the gentlemen and flirting with th'
ladies. There were very few houses
wnere bis lordship wss not heartily